Re: High quality resources for learning modern C?

From	David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: High quality resources for learning modern C?
Date	2017-06-05 12:39 +0200
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 05/06/17 12:28, Leon Taylor wrote:
> On Monday, June 5, 2017 at 7:56:34 PM UTC+10, David Brown wrote:
>> On 05/06/17 01:43, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>> Leon Taylor <leontaylor476@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Monday, June 5, 2017 at 7:03:34 AM UTC+10, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>>>> GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, 4 Jun 2017 16:53:56 +0200
>>>>>> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A convenient reference is <http://en.cppreference.com/w/c>.  The site
>>>>>>> also covers C++, so be careful not to mix things up.  But it tries to
>>>>>>> cover as much as possible of modern C in a fairly accessible manner.  It
>>>>>>> is not a replacement for the official standards, of course, nor is it a
>>>>>>> tutorial or teaching book - it lies in between as a (relatively) easily
>>>>>>> understood reference.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The web site is called "cppreference" and you assume it could provide a good C
>>>>>> reference...
>>>>>
>>>>> I doubt he assumes it -- I am pretty sure he knows it from having
>>>>> actually looked as the URL he quoted.  It's a good C reference.  Go have
>>>>> a look and see if agree.
>>>>>
>>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>> The quality of the reference on that site is good, but I find the site
>>>> hard to navigate and it does mix C and C++ up sometimes.
>>>
>>> The site includes C and C++ references but the URL given was for the C
>>> part.  When you say the site mixes them up sometimes, what do you mean?
>>> I've not come across that myself.  Are there C++ pages in the C part?
>>>
>>
>> There are certainly cross-references between the C and C++ parts (at the
>> very least, many C pages have a link at the bottom to the corresponding
>> C++ page).  And sometimes pages have information about the differences
>> between how a particular function or concept works in C and C++ - I find
>> this helpful.
> 
> This is what I meant when I said that the website mixes C and C++ up.
> The website isn't broken, its just very easy to go into the C++
> section of that website.
The website covers both C and C++.  It also covers all versions of the C 
and C++ standards.  That does mean that sometimes it will have 
information that is not relevant for the language or version of the 
language that particularly interests you at that point.  But I think the 
site does a good job of marking these differences clearly - you should 
be able to see very quickly if you have strayed to the dark side, as 
some people view C++.

> Thanks, Leon
>

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